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Metaphysical Geometric Unity, Cognition & Human Consciousness…

Mediating a Mind-Independent Reality via a Mind-Dependent Representation

8 min readMar 18, 2025

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“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions”…

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Teaching means creating situations where structures can be discovered”…

– Jean Piaget

“Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy”…

– Plato

In Substance — The Primary Mode of Being and the Medium for Meaning a central idea was the Metaxic role of Semiotics in mediating human consciousness’sphenomenological experience of Being — participating in a Mind Independent Reality — whilst — developing a Mind-Dependent Representation.

A recognition of a Metaphysical Geometric Unity ( Being, Knowing & Meaning).

The purpose of abstraction is to allow the mind to organise, generalise, and manipulate meaning beyond immediate perception. It facilitates problem-solving, theoretical development, creativity, and the ability to recognise and generalise underlying patterns in the world. Through abstraction, humans can engage in complex reasoning, innovate, and extend knowledge beyond sensory limitations.

Exploring the semiotic landscape of abstraction and high-dimensional geometric space of understanding constrained by necessity ( e.g. Kant’s Categories — twelve fundamental a priori concepts of knowing that structure human experience, Aristotle’s Categories — ten fundamental a priori concepts of being and Peirce’s Categories — three fundamental a priori process phases of mediating human experiences with the human mind) and empowered by possibility ( e.g. pursuit of higher order normative sciences ( ethics, aesthetics & truth), creative imagination, learning, new habits and new modes of Being).

When semiotics (meaning) is combined with epistemology (knowing) and ontology (being) (i.e. a Metaphysical Geometric Unity ) it brings together a Sense of Coherence to Man’s conscious participation in a context-dependent Reality.

Meaning and understanding arise not by grasping an ultimate objective Reality but through the embodied metaxic semiotic participation in Reality between the Observer (Interpreter) and the Observed (Object).

“Objectivity is the delusion that observations could be made without an observer”…

― Heinz von Foerster

A symbolic mediation of experiences through symbols is only accessible through participation in Reality (Heidegger Being in the World Dasein and Husserl Lieb — Lived Body).

It highlights the important distinction between Meaning ( Part of the World Unity of Being Metaphysical Geometric Unity) and other disciplines such as Science****, Mathematics etc… (Concepts, Categories & Relationships of KnowingApart from the WorldCognition (Mind)).

***Note — Science tends to take an ontic (i.e. ontological — what exists)) approach, analysing being from an external, detached perspective (i.e. apart from the World — viewing Reality from the balcony of abstraction) rather than recognising the embodied entangled nature of Being (ie. semiotic — lived embodied experience — being in the world) that allows such analysis to emerge in the first place.

Note: Scientific progress emerges from new relationships of meaning (i.e. Semiotics & Abductive Reasoning) and our being in the World. Modern Science is increasingly in crisis as it orientates increasingly towards a world of abstraction and academia (apart from the World). Without a Metaphysical Geometric Unity that is ever-present in Man’s participation in Reality through Being it is inevitable that our Sense of Coherence collapses. A new Dark Age.

A conscious state that represents a Metaphysical Geometric Unity and Triadic of:

In doing so, it challenges the prevailing intellectual paradigm that semiotics is a subset of philosophy because philosophy deals with the broadest questions, and meaning is one of those questions.

Given all human knowledge and human lived experiences are expressed and mediated through signs, semiotics could be seen as the foundational discipline of Being from which science, philosophy, physics and other semantic disciplines of meaning originate.

Whilst these disciplines are anchored in abstraction and the study of thought (logic), semiotics emerge through the primary mode of being and man’s participation in Reality — our relational lived embodied contextual experiences.

Metaxic Semiotics is a disruptive idea that illuminates Gödel’s Limits of Logicnoting (Logic is the Study of Thought).

A paradigm shift in how we perceive Reality.

A fundamental feature of intelligence (part logical & part biological), human consciousness and participation in Reality (Being).

A shift to a Triadic form of Reason emanating from Semantics, new relationships of meaning (Abduction) and Being in the World.

In other words, if we accept that:

We can conclude that:

“Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy”…

– Plato

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Richard Schutte
Richard Schutte

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